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by harsh_gupta123 » Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:36 am
Consumers planning to buy recreational equipment tend to buy higher quality, more expensive equipment when the economy is strong than when it is weak. Hill and Dale is a business that sells high-quality, expensive camping and hiking equipment in Boravia. Although all the signs are that Boravia's economy is now entering a period of sustained strength, the managers of the business do not expect a substantial increase in sales.

Which of the following, if true, would provide the strongest justification for the managers' judgment?

A. A significant proportion of Hill and Dale's sales are made to customers who enter the store in order to buy one particular item but, once there, find other items to buy as well.

B. In Boravia when the economy is strong, those who might otherwise go camping tend to take vacations overseas.

C. The economic upturn is likely to allow Boravia's national parks, where most of the camping and hiking is done, to receive extra funding to improve their visitor facilities.

D. Advances in materials technology have led to the development of hiking and camping equipment that is more comfortable and lightweight than before.

E. Many people in Boravia not only are committed to preserving the country's wilderness areas but also are interested in spending some time in them.

I chose B but OA is different. Please provide your reasoning. I think OA is wrong
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by komal » Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:20 am
harsh_gupta123 wrote:Consumers planning to buy recreational equipment tend to buy higher quality, more expensive equipment when the economy is strong than when it is weak. Hill and Dale is a business that sells high-quality, expensive camping and hiking equipment in Boravia. Although all the signs are that Boravia's economy is now entering a period of sustained strength, the managers of the business do not expect a substantial increase in sales.
Which of the following, if true, would provide the strongest justification for the managers' judgment?

A. A significant proportion of Hill and Dale's sales are made to customers who enter the store in order to buy one particular item but, once there, find other items to buy as well.
Incorrect : This weakens the manager's judgment. If customers pick extra items to buy it would only result in increase in sales.

B. In Boravia when the economy is strong, those who might otherwise go camping tend to take vacations overseas.
Incorrect : Who knows Ppl of boravia who take vacations abroad might also go camping abroad

C. The economic upturn is likely to allow Boravia's national parks, where most of the camping and hiking is done, to receive extra funding to improve their visitor facilities.
Correct : If the visitor facilities improve the boravia national parks would provide all the camping and hiking equipments and the visitors dont need to buy them. This provides the strongest justification for the managers judgment.

D. Advances in materials technology have led to the development of hiking and camping equipment that is more comfortable and lightweight than before.
Incorrect : This might only lead to increase in sales.

E. Many people in Boravia not only are committed to preserving the country's wilderness areas but also are interested in spending some time in them.
Incorrect : Preserving country's wilderness blah blah blahhhhh is not relevant to the scope of the argument.
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by thephoenix » Wed Feb 10, 2010 2:28 am
A. -->wrng because other items could be the camping and hiking equipment
B. In Boravia when the economy is strong, those who might otherwise go camping tend to take vacations overseas. -->wrng: Vacation overseas can relate to Camping
C. -->IMO, Contender: Because of improve visitor facilities, so customers don't need to buy more hiking or camping equipments in Store
D. -->wrng not mention the upturn economy, the Store could have advanced technology equipment for hiking and camping
E. incorrect

IMO C
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by raisethebar » Wed Feb 10, 2010 5:29 am
i am not sure about C and D. But could think of a point not to chose C that if C, then probably demand for such instrument will increase rather than maintaining its steadiness.

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by shashank.ism » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:36 am
harsh_gupta123 wrote:Consumers planning to buy recreational equipment tend to buy higher quality, more expensive equipment when the economy is strong than when it is weak. Hill and Dale is a business that sells high-quality, expensive camping and hiking equipment in Boravia. Although all the signs are that Boravia's economy is now entering a period of sustained strength, the managers of the business do not expect a substantial increase in sales.
Which of the following, if true, would provide the strongest justification for the managers' judgment?
A. A significant proportion of Hill and Dale's sales are made to customers who enter the store in order to buy one particular item but, once there, find other items to buy as well.
B. In Boravia when the economy is strong, those who might otherwise go camping tend to take vacations overseas.
C. The economic upturn is likely to allow Boravia's national parks, where most of the camping and hiking is done, to receive extra funding to improve their visitor facilities.
D. Advances in materials technology have led to the development of hiking and camping equipment that is more comfortable and lightweight than before.
E. Many people in Boravia not only are committed to preserving the country's wilderness areas but also are interested in spending some time in them.

I chose B but OA is different. Please provide your reasoning. I think OA is wrong
A. In that case they will have increase in sell only .as all the equipments will be of hiking and camping only.
B. This might be a reason. -- take it for a while
C. This will surely reduce the sales as good facilities sis being already provided by national parks.
D. If technology etc is being improved then surely it will lead to increase in sales.
E. I don't understand how is it related anyway to the above paragraph.
So I will go for C
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by nileshdalvi » Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:55 am
I think by picking up C, we make a lot of assumptions. I stand by B. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe I am right. B says that instead of camping they take up vacations. By all means, this statement says that they do not do camping overseas. This will surely reduce the sale. Assumptions made in C go too far in the argument. Agreed that visitor facilities may surely include these equipments. But this means that people wont buy, but since improving of visitor facilities is a consideration, at least the park can buy if not visitors. Again you go ahead arguing that the amount these guys biuy will be less because the camping equipement shall be reused and not that much sale will take place and so on. If you directly say that people do not go for camping, then the amount of sales will reduce significantly. According to me, C cannot be considered as a better option than B. If the OA says so, my reasoning might be wrong. Please correct me, if my reasoning is going wayward.

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by okigbo » Wed Feb 10, 2010 7:21 am
I too went with B. None of the other choices seem as strong as B and noone has made a convincing case otherwise.

What is the OA? and what is the source of the question?

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by Testluv » Thu Feb 11, 2010 12:47 am
The correct answer is definitely choice B: it provides us with a reason for why the company's prospects may not improve even though the economy is strengthening.

If the OA is not listed as B, then one or more of the follwing must be true: the OA is incorrect; the OA has (somewhere) been mistranscribed; some text of the question itself has been mistranscribed; or, this is a bad source.

Choice B reads:

In Boravia when the economy is strong, those who might otherwise go camping tend to take vacations overseas.

It was suggested in some posts above that people who travel overseas may still camp. But because the answer choice uses the word "otherwise", this interpretation is definitely questionable on a commonsense basis, and, for that reason, would certainly be an incorrect interpretation on the GMAT. (Also, if you were camping overseas, chances are you are going to buy your camping equipment overseas; the alternative would be lugging a bunch of camping equipment overseas, which seems kind of absurd to me).

Choice C is wrong because, presumably, camping and hiking equipment includes things other than just "visitor facilities". For example, it is doubtful that "visitor facilities" includes items such as hiking boots. In fact, if visitor facilities improve, it might incentivize people who were on the fence about camping to actually go out and camp; in which case, they might go out and buy those hiking boots that they would have not have otherwise purchased. In that case, choice C actually weakens the argument.
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by gmatmachoman » Thu Feb 11, 2010 1:07 am
Hi Deepak,


very happy to see u back !!Great to see you back on the forum & revived our energy levels by your fab replies & posts. :D :D :D :D :D :D

Not only this question Deepak, there are so many POOR CR questions that has been posted for the past 2 weeks.

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by sumanr84 » Thu Feb 11, 2010 2:40 am
IMO : B,

For all other ans choices we are making out-of-scope assumptions as posted by many here.
I am on a break !!

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by mmslf75 » Fri Feb 12, 2010 12:34 am
gmatmachoman wrote:Hi Deepak,


very happy to see u back !!Great to see you back on the forum & revived our energy levels by your fab replies & posts. :D :D :D :D :D :D

Not only this question Deepak, there are so many POOR CR questions that has been posted for the past 2 weeks.
yeah thats true Govi,

People here are posting bad questions I guess from some Local test Prep companies..
This needs to be stopped.

Time and again I have been posting across the forums threads to post the source, but in vain

Eric,

I suggest that something be done about these low standard questions being posted across
Or atleast the poster must specify the source such that one can steer away from such local sources

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by beatthegmat » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:48 am
It sounds like we need a flagging featuring on our community. Click a button on a post and alert our staff about a shady question, spam, or just inappropriate material. What do you think?
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by gmatmachoman » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:53 am
beatthegmat wrote:It sounds like we need a flagging featuring on our community. Click a button on a post and alert our staff about a shady question, spam, or just inappropriate material. What do you think?
Eric,

U wuld certainly know what I would say!!

Its a BIG yes man....we need it....

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by beatthegmat » Fri Feb 12, 2010 9:56 am
Alright guys, I hear you loud and clear. Let me work on this with the staff and DavidP. Thanks!
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by mmslf75 » Fri Feb 12, 2010 10:40 am
beatthegmat wrote:It sounds like we need a flagging featuring on our community. Click a button on a post and alert our staff about a shady question, spam, or just inappropriate material. What do you think?
yeah, that would do good...
atleast it will keep such nonsensical questions at bay !